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: ' ' ^ 'wTHE BAMBERG HERALD.r Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1905 One Dollar a Yearv" s $1,000 LIMIT POKER GAME.Played by Party of Millionaires on an OceanLiner.The superb Kaiser Wilhelm II of the' North German Lloyd fleet, says The NewYork Sun, of Wednesday, brought in yesterdayfrom Bremen, Southampton and'Cherbourg not only the largest numberof saloon voyagers ever carried in a singleliner, but the tallest yarn of poker playingever indulged in on shipboard, notexcep$0ting the phenom enal games that traditiontells about on the Mississippi in the dayst.hp xcfLT.Never have so many rich men homewardbound assembled in the smokingroom of a sea express. But the greatgame was not played in the smoking roomwhere the multitudes might look on andcount the winnings and losses and notethe players. None of the participantsf . would tell anything about it or even acknowledgethat there had been any gameat all. But it was the gossip of the shipall the way across, and it is said thatmore than $100,000 changed hands.It was a thousand dollar limit at firstbut finally, the rumors had it, the playerswere betting copper mines, railroads,steamships and seats in the Stock Ex/change. In the nervous enthusiasm ofthe sport one of the players, so the incandescentgossip went, had offered to buythe three million dollar Kaiser WilhelmII and put her up against anythingof equivalent value that any other enthusiastwanted to wager.But the real facts in the case are thatnothing but money and checks was used.The white chips, used merely in anteing,represented $100, the red $500 and theblues $1,000. Investigation revealed thatthere was no ground for the story thatone young man had gone into the gamebefore he was aware of the nature of thestakes and had impressively asked for $100worth of chips. His cliest expansion wasreduced several feet when he received aL;v single white one.The players were five men of great;f wealth and every one of them merelygave a bland smile when asked if he hadsat in with the other fellows and said thatreally it was a game he did not understand.He had apparently read the* "Heathen Chinee."It was not altogether a dry game, althoughmost of the players indulged very/ . lightly in highballs and fizz. An ambitionto win more and a desire to recoupkept going day and night, and the lastsession did not end until the liner wasI; ? within sight of Fire Island. Capt. Hogemannsaid there might have been playingfor high stakes aboard the Kaiser, butthat he personally knew nothing of it.He was sure that the line still owned theskip?.,y Still Boom For One."Brethren," said a man in the meeting,? "so many sinners are dying every day Ihave come to the conclusion that hell isfull." He sat down, when an old deaconin the amen corner raised the hymn:"There's a place reserved tor you, orotner,a place reserved for you."A Philadelphia paper has gathered statisticswhich show that a woman's chancesto marry between the age? of 25 and 30* are only 18 per cent, while between 20and 25 the chances are 52 per cent in herfavor. Apparently it is rather dangerousto say no to the first man.If you want a higher grade buggythan you can find elsewhere, call at Q.f Frank Bamberg's.Wanted a Disconnt.Simon Ford enjoys nothing better thanto tell a story of the humors of the hotelbusiness, says Harper's Weekly."A friend in the West," says Mr. Ford,"once related to me the trials and tribulationsof the people employed in the officeof his hostelry to keep in proper boundsa young man from Chicago who as soonas he had registered proceeded to makethings lively. The first evening he spentwith them he did the proprietor out of aneat sum at poker; the next night he returnedto his quarters considerably intoxicatedafter having whipped his cabby;the third night he gave an impromptuconcert in the halls. This was too muchfor the hotel people; they asked for hiskey and rendered his bill. Evidently theamount thereof was not to his liking, for> . he exclaimed, pathetically:" 'Say, don't you fellows make any discountto the clergy?' "A Turn-Down."Here y' are! Extry!" yelled the newsboy."Big accident!""What was the accident, boy?" askedKloseman."Why, de accident wuz dat anudderstingy cuss like you onct found out denews from me widout buyin' a paper.".j - _LIKE FINDING MONEY.Finding health is like finding money?> so think those who are sick. When youhave a cough, cold, sore throat, or chestirritation, act promptly like W. C. Barber,of Sandy Level, Va. He says: "Ihad a terrible chest trouble, caused bysmoke and coal dust on my lungs; but,after finding no relief in other remedies,I was cured by Dr. King's New Discoveryfor consumption, coughs and colds."4?- Greatest sale of any cough or lung medicinein the world. At all druggists inBamberg; Felder & Matthews, Denmark.50c and $1.00; guaranteed. Trial bottlefree.4I IN THE PALMETTO STATE.|INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUSKINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.State News Boiled Down for Quick ReadingPungent Paragraphs About Menand Happenings.Senator Tillman made a speech at Tirzah,York county, last Thursday on thedispensary, and in the course of his remarkshe said Governor Heyward shouldexercise his power and remove the Stateboard of control.Because he saw his reflection in a mirror on a furniture wagon to which he washitched, a horse in Anderson ran awayand severely injured two people. Scoreanother for Anderson, as the editor of theDaily Mail is wont to say.The supervisor of Darlington county,pursuant to petitions presented, has orderedan election in that county on thequestion of "dispensary'\or "no dispenjsary." The election is to be held on Tuesday,October 10th.In a speech at Lancaster last FridaySenator Tillman said he would give hissalary as senator for a year just to be governorfor three months. That he wouldremove the State board of control, andclean up the dispensary generally.Mr. W. H. Manning, dispenser at Cheraw,whose name was coupled with theinvestigating proceedings at Sumter lastweek, gave his resignation last Saturdayto the county board of control of Chesterfieldcounty. He assigns ill health as hisreason for resigning.Senator Eugene S. Blease, of Saluda,gave out a statement the day after hekilled his brother-in-law, Joe Ben Coleman,in which he stated the reason hekilled Coleman was that he found outthere were intimate relations betweenColeman and Mrs. Blease.Frank J. Kirkham, a young lineman ofthe Southern Bell Telephone Company,was killed in Florence last Monday afternoonby his body coming in contact witha live electric wire and falling from a poleto the ground, a distance or thirty-nvefeet. He died in a few minutes.T. D. Mitchell, the white man who wasrecently convicted of fraud in holdingthe municipal election in the town ofBrookland, Lexington county, and fined$75.00, has been released from jail, as hisfather paid the fine. Mitchell was a policemanin Orangeburg some years ago.The grounds and buildings of the oldMethodist Female college in Columbiawere sold at auction last week. Mr. F. H.Hyatt bought the property, for which hepaid $30,000. The new college buildingis located on the outskirts of the city andis ready for use at the approaching fallsession.Replying to Senator Tillman's suggestionthat he remove the State board ofdispensary directors, Governor Heywardsays that he has no intention at presentof taking such action, but if the evidencebrought out by the investigating committeesatisfies him, he will not hesitate toremove the entire board.Jas. Padgett, a mulatto, was arrested atJohnston last Thursday charged with attemptedassault upon a 12-year-old whitegirl, the daughter of a prominent citizenof that town. He was carried to Edge"" --a j _ Jneia ana piaceu m jau auu uuui vucicwas taken to Columbia for safe keeping.A crowd came to Edgefield Thursdaynight to lynch the negro, but he had alreadybeen moved and they quietly dispersed.Eugene S. Blease, Esq., shot and seriouslywounded his brother-in-law, JoeBenColeman, on the streets of Saludalast Friday night. Five or six shots werefired, and Coleman has four wounds, twoof which penetrated the body and willlikely cause death. Immediately afterthe shooting Blease surrendered to thesheriff and was put in jail. It is notknown what caused the trouble. Bleaseis senator from Saluda county, and is*a brother of Cole L. Blease, of Newberry.Coleman was formerly a dispensary constable.Falling in a tub of water in Greenvillelast Thursday,the infant child of Mr. andMrs. E. W. Cannon was drowned. Aphysician was summoned, when the terrifiedmother found.the little body in thewater, and heroic efforts were made toinduce respiration, but without results.The physician said that the child hadbeen dead twenty minutes. The motherleft the child sleeping on a pallet in thefront porch, and it is supposed that whenthe child, which was just learning to walk.% ' - - * i t- j iwaaea, 11 went to tne tuo ana leaningover, fell in.Ex-Dispenser Arrested.Jonesville, September 7.?Mr. F. L.Dorrity was arrested and placed underbond here last week by the deputy sheriffof Aiken county as a defaulting dispenserat Salley's, where he had been dispenserbefore he came to Jonesville.Mr. Dorrity moved to Jonesville overtwelve months ago and he has been a verypeaceable, quiet man and worker in theBaptist church of which he united by letter.His shortage is said t o be about $300.He gave a commercial bond and it is hisbondsmen that had him prosecuted. They,however, had been waiting on Mr. Dorrityto make his shortage good with thepromise that if he would they would notpush the bond. Mr. Dorrity says he orthe dispensary was robbed, that causedthe shortage. Mr. Dorrity has manyfriends here, who sympathize with him inhis trouble.Hurt in Bicycle Accident Spartanburg,Sept. 11.?L. A. Justice,a well known contractor, met with a veryserious accident today, at the corner ofChurch and Main streets. He hadalifhted from a street ear and was in theactTof stepping on the sidewalk, when hewas struck by a bicycle, ridden by a negroboy. The cyclist was going at a rapidrate of speed, and the force of the en- jcounter threw Mr. Justice, who is a heavyman, to the pavement)with violence. Hishead struck the curbing, and an uglywound near the base of the brain was theresult. He was rendered unconscious.His skull may be fractured. His conditionis serious. The negro cyclist hasnot been arrested, although the police arelooking for him.NEGROES BLOCK SCHOOLBarents Seat Children Beside Whites in Spiteof Orders.Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 8? Negro pupilsand white pupils at Bonner Springs,Kan., yesterday were forced to enter theschool building together for enrollmentfor the school term which will begin in afew days. The jboard of education hadordered the whites and blacks placed inseparate rooms, and trouble resulted.Negro parents of pupils tried to forcethe board of education to allow the negrorhilHrpn tn sit. in t.hp samp room with thewhites. J. D. Waters, one of the boardmembers, ordered the negro men andwomen off the school grounds. The menleft the building, but the women,twenty innumber, refused to budge.Finally the negro women took chargeof the negro pupils and seated them bythe side of white students. The negrowomen became so noisy and boisterousthat the board of education ordered theenrollment postponed until next Mondaymorning.It's Now up to Kansas.A corn year in Missouri means much tothe world. This is a corn year. EditorPainter, of Carrolton, relates an incidentof the yield, showing the size of the earin his county. An enterprising farmer,wishing to utilize every foot of availablespace, planted corn on the roadbed of anabandoned switch, which lay parallel tothe main tracks.A few nights ago a high wind blewdown one of the stalks across the maintrack. The far-sighted engineer of the jthrough train approaching discoveredwhat he thought was a huge bowlder inthe way and halted the train at a distanceof several hundred yards. The obstacleproved to be an ear of corn, which ac- Jcording to Mr. Painter, required twentymen to remove it.How a Great Hymn Was Written.Probably a great hymn never had amore humble origin than "Onward, ChristianSoldiers," which is one of the mostpopular of our modern hymns. In theOctober Delineator Allen Sutherlandwrites:"A ?reat school festival was to be heldin a 1 orkshire village on Whit-Monday,1865, and the scholars of Horbury Bridgeschool, over which the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gouldwas curate, were invited to attend.As the place of the celebration wassome distance away, the minister thoughtit would be an excellent plan to have hisscholars march to the singing of an appropriateand stirring hymn. Fortunatelyfor our hymnologv, he could find nothingin his song books suitable for such anoccasion, so from sheer necessity he satdown ,on the Saturday evening, precedingthe celebration and composed thisgreat processional hymn, little dreamingthat be had produced that which wouldbe world-wide in its usefulness and makehis name a household word. BaringGould,a minister of the Church of England,is an authority on many subjects,and is a voluminous writer, having publishednearly one hundred volumes. Intwenty years, between 1870 and 1890, heissued no less than forty-three books, sixteenof which were novels. During thenext six years he published seventeennovels. A number of his works havepassed through several editions. Thissuggests the poet Thomas Gray, who wasalso a man of vast learning, not only inliterature, although he left writingsenough to form, with his life, a book offour volumes, edited by Edmund Gosse,it is by his one poem, "Elegy Written ina Country Churchyard," that he will beever remembered." This may also provetrue of Baring-Gould. The few lineshurriedly composed on a Saturday eveningas a marching song for a band of littlechildren will doubtless give to his namegreater fame than all the books he hasever written.Sight Crazed Him.Winsted, Conn., Sept. 11.?BenjaminTaylor, about seventy years old, of Colebrook,who was formerly a preacher andwho has been totally blind for severalyears, was so elated yesterday when heregained his sight that he became mentallyunbalanced, and now is a ravingmaniac. The probate court committedhim to the State Hospital for Insane, andhe was taken to the asylum in Middletownthis afternoon.After the old man-had recovered hissight he did not trust it, and walked off anembankment wall at the home of his sonon Lake street, badly bruising his head.His hallucinations took a religious turn,and he constantly exhorted on his kneesin the police and railroad stations beforebeing taken away. 4When the Train StartsSweltering stranger (at Cactus Crossing)?Whenon earth does the next trainleave this sun-baked, heaven- forsakenregion?Alkali Ike?Waal, stranger, we haseach got a right to his opinion on thetsnbjek, but them that knows declares ithikes out jest after the engine.?NewYork Times.John Jasper on Baptism.Rev.John Jasper, the celebrated coloredpreacher, of Richmond, Va., in his argu- jment in faver of immersion as the propermode of baptism said:"Brethring, even a tarrapin know howto be baptize'. When he's ersunnin essefon a log en see a shower comin' across depon' 'scoot he goes offen dat log into depon'; he can't even let God Almightysprinkle 'im." John also urged that Christwas a nigger because he associated withNiggerdemus."'country news letters.SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGSIN VARIOUS SECTIONS.News Items Gathered All Aroundthe County and Elsewhere.Ehrhardt Etchings.? - ? -< - "%* _ IJiiHRHAHDT, septemoer ii.?Air. joonB. Bitter and Sim Rush, brothers-in-law,became involved in a difficulty last week,resulting in John B. Bitter cutting SimRush to death. Sim, however, shot Ritteras he was running away and sprinkledhim from head to feet with small shot.Mr. L. W. Ritter was ginning cotton atnight when one of his colored men wascaught in the press gearing, and his handis mutilated so it will liave to be amputatedat or near the wrist.Miss Janie McMillan, daughter of CaptJ. C. McMillan, was buried at the McMiliangrave yard last week.Mr. J. D. Padgett and fanr.ly went ona visit to relatives in Colleton last Saturday.A forest fire has been annoying thisneighborhood for several days, but thinkwe have about gotten it under control.1016 bales of new cotton bad been snippedfrom here up to Saturday noon.Miss Lizzie Trowell, of Walterboro, hasbeen spending some time with Mr. Geo.J. Hiers's family.Dry and dusty?rain will do us all good.The careless handling of an old pistolcame very near killing a little darkylast week. The pistol was left in an opendrawer and when the older ones wereout at work the larger children got outthe pistol and discharged it. The ballhit one of the little darkies near the eye,but was a glancing shot and went aroundthe skull and came out at back of head.The little darky is doing well at thiswriting. Jee.G. Frank Bamberg handles the bestI buggies and wagons, yet the pricesare reasonable.Affairs in Allendale.Allendale, September 11.?The Allendalegraded school opened this morningwith an enrolment of abut 115 scholars.This is considered good for the first day.Quite a large number will be added tothese by the end of the week. The boardof trustees were present, also quite a numberof the citizens of the town. Shortspeeches were made by most of the trusteesand teachers. Dr. J. E. Wannackmade a very appropriate talk on education.The school this year will be in the handsof Prof B. H. Boyd, assisted by Prof E.Ladson Fishburne, Miss A. S. Arnold andMiss Carrie Dun woody.Mrs. B. H. Johnstone, wife of Prof.Johnstone, of Clemson college, is visitingher brother, Mr. H. T. Farmer.Miss Ada O'Bryan left today for her 'home in Rock Hill, S. C. 1An unknown negro was killed by the <Charleston and Western Carolina through ifreight train on Saturday night just in 1front of the passenger depot. His bodywas so mangled that it was impossible toidentify him. It is supposed that he wasbeating a ride on the train and fell betweenthe cars.Introspection.The good God placed me on this earth!I wonder for what cause?Of joy there is surely a dearth,And sorrows never pause!They come upon me every dayrThey meet me every where!And it does seem, the more I pray,The faster they appear!The preachers say that one must strive,A perfect life to lead;One must his faith each hour revive,How hard is this indeed!And when at last one comes to die,Life's fitful fever o'er;Will my good Lord to me draw nigh,And help me to the shore? T. C. S.Bamberg, S. C., September 11,1905.Negro Dead on the Track.St. Matthews, September 10.?CliftonHamilton, a negro, was found dead abouta mile above the station early Fridaymorning. He was lying near the track ofthe Southern. An autopsy revealed thethe fact that his skull was crushed witha large hole in the right temple,Hamilton left on Wednesday's morningtrain fr?r T^nrt ATntto tn otfrpnH n nporrnllMIU AV* A v*v *'*vvvv vv %,V"V4*V4 ~ **VD*WSunday school convention and was tohave returned in the evening but did not.It is the supposition that the negro wasreturning on a mixed train due here at 3.30a. m. and in some way fell off or undertookto get off before the train reached thestation and was hurled against a cross tiewith above results. The jury rendered a 'verdict agreeing with this theory.H. L. Dawes, the distinguished Massachusettslawyer, in his young manhoodwas an indifferent speaker. Participating !in a law case soon after his admission to 1the bar before a North Adams justice of ithe peace, Dawes was opposed by an old Iattorney, whose eloquence attracted a ]large crowd that packed the court room. ]The justice was freely perspiring anddrawing off his coat in the midst of thelawyer's eloquent address, he said: "Mr.Attorney, supposing you sit down and <let Dawes begin to speak. I want to thin jout this crowd." <Don't wait until you need a tonic, take 1CU A WC 'Dl'TRf WATTUUiL IT WJ X Ullli iUilJJX ?uu fcUUiU cagainst nervous collapse. For sale at the ?dispensary. ]GRAFT ALSO IN SUMTER.Brewing Company Would Give $5,000 to AidL. J. Williams if He Ran for Governor.Sumter, Sept. 7.?The feature of thismorning's investigation was RepresentativeLyon's question to Dispenser Wyndhamwhether L. W. Boykin, then inspector,but now a member of the State board,had asked him to order out some beerfreely because the Acme Brewing Companyhad agreed to spend $5,000 for ChairmanL. J. Williams in case he ran forgovernor, w ynanam naa no recoiieciionof being so approached.Ex-Dispenser E. D. Smith, of Mayesville,testified that Boykin so approachedhim and witnesses saw Boykin talking toWyndham shortly afterward.Sir. Miller of the Sumter Evening Newstold of his efforts to get local dispenserand county board to carry out the lawwith regards to request book and the like.Both flatly refused, and when he took thematter up with Hub Evans the latterjoked about it and told him the Stateboard was looking after tigers and had notime to see af .er dispensers.W. M. Sanders, a former member of theSumter county board of control testifiedto Dispenser Warren at Mayesville offeringhim half the $40 per month incomeof the job to vote for him as bottle buyer.Extracts from the minutes of the countyboard meetings were introduced toshow that Sanders made repeated effortsto get the board to carry out the law.But when he said the only thing he couldsee to account for his being dropped fromthe board by the legislative delegationwas his activity in trying to have the lawobeyed, there was a solemn protest to thestatement on the part of Senator Manning,Representative*Clifton, Moses andFraser, who each made a statement flatlycontradicting Sanders and denying anyknowledge of the matter Sanders complainedof. They voted against tiandersbecause of his unfitness for the place.Mayor Rhett and ex-county boardChairman O'Neill, of Charleston did notappear, ana notning naving Deen nearafrom them, it was decided to wind up themeeting here at noon.Mr. Lyon has several affidavits fromGreenville, but these will not be read here,no witnesses having been summoned.Bears Will Pay Twelve Cents.While discussing the price of cotton atthe cotton platform last Monday, one ofour buyers gave his view of the" outlookin rhyme, as follows:Now farmers all come list to me,And if you heed my voice,I'll bring to you prosperity,And cause you to rejoice!The same old game is being tried,By gamblers we call bears,But your lands are no longer tied.And you should have no fears!If when your crops you try to sell,And cannot get your price;Just tell the bear to go to hell,And he'll go in a trice!The world must have your crop youknow,To make their clothes and tents,Over the bears ere long you'll crow,For they will pay 12 cents, T. C, S.Bamberg, S. C., September 11,1905.iFarmer Wanted to Die.riAviTn? S ?Yesterdav mnrninffMr. Jno. W. W. Branyon, who lives aboutfive miles from this place, attempted suicideby jumping into the well.His wife saw him in time to preventthe fatal leap, but about one hour later hesaid he wanted to look at his crop andstarted off. His son saw him enter a vacanthouse some distance from the residence,and he did not come out, ran to theplace and looked in.He 'found his father hanging from arafter. He cut him down and sent forDr. Carlton, of Donalds, who succeededin resuscitating him.Dr. Carlton thinks he will recover.For some time Mr. Branyon has sufferedwith some mental trouble and only a fewmonths ago returned from the State hospitalfor the insane.If you want a higher grade buggythan you can find elsewhere, call at G.Frank Bamberg's.Dispensaries Closed.On Saturday Inspector Mart Floyd cameup to Prosperity and checked up the dispenserthere and then closed the dispensaryin pursuance of the vote of the peoplethe 29th of August. Inspectors McCarthaand Nichols came to Newberryand checked up the liquor dispensary andthe beer dispensary and closed them.They were closed in the morning.During the day there was a very noticeableabsence of drunkenness in town.The policemen say they have not seen soquiet a Saturday for many a day.?Newberry Observer.No Mixed Schools in Kansas.Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 11.?Negropupils were refused admission to thewhite high school at Kansas City, Kansasand the ward school at Bonner Springs,ZTnmana frt/IoTT Tn PQCPC tVlP nPCPmMxxau^ac, bV/Uttj AU wvvu wwvwwithdrew quietly, and there was no showof a clash. In Kansas City, Kansas, it issaid the negroes will test the case in thecourts. The Kansas Legislature lastwinter passed an act separating the racesin the Kansas City schools. This was adirect,result of the agitation following!the murder of a white boy by a negropupil. Bonds were voted to build a schoolfor negroes and pending the erection ofthe structure, the board of educationplanned to have two sessions daily at thewhite school, for whites in the morningand negroes in the afternoon. The negroesobjected, preferring to sit with thewhites.At Bonner Springs, the school arrangedseparate rooms for whites and negroes,but to this the negroes objected, protestingthey should occupy the rooms simuiiaenouslywith the white children. AtBonner Springs the negroes were accompaniedto school by their parents.GOT OFF CHEAP.He may well think, he has got off?eap, who, after having contracted constipationor indigestion, is still able to restorehis health. Nothing will do this}ut Dr. Kings New Life Pills. A quick,pleasant, and certain cure for sick headiche,constipation, etc. 25c at all drugristsin Bamberg; Felder & Matthews,Denmark, guaranteed.A DEPLORABLE TRAGEDY.MR. JOHN B. RITTER STABS MR. SIM RUSHTO DEATH WITH A KINFE.Both Men Prominent in the Community andWere Brothers-in-Law?QuarreledOver Land.Last Wednesday afternoon Mr. JohnB. Ritter stabbed Mr. Sim Rush with apocket knife, and the wound caused deathin a few minutes. The killing occurrednear the home of Mr. Rush in the Kearsesection, in the lower part of this county.Mr. Ritter was shot by Mr. Rush and issaid to be severely but not seriouslywounded. It is expected that he willrecover soon.As stated above, the difficulty occurrednear the home of Mr. Rush, and waswitnessed by Mr. Rush's two sons andhis wife's mother. We understand therehad not been the best of feeling betweenthe two men for some time. A short timeago Mr. Rush sold some parties some Atimber, and while they were cutting Mr.Ritter stopped them, saying they were onhis land, it appearing that the two menlive not very far apart, their lands adjoining.The two men are brothers-in-law,Mr. Rush having married Mr. Ritter'ssister. * "JdMr. Rush sent Mr. Ritter word to comeover and settle the line, and Mr. Ritter 1 hwent over. As to how the difficultystarted, there are two stories. One is thatMr. Rush commenced to abuse Mr. Ritterand hot words passed, Mr. Rush finallyreaching for his gun which was leaningagainst the fence nearby. Then Mr. Ritterstabbed him, the blade of his knifepenetrating the heart. That then Mr.Kushs's two sons ran up and Mr. Ritterstarted to run. When about twenty yards? wftfl -fi mA An ftriAO Ho wv?ola rl3ttWilJf lie VY ao UX l/U VU V TV UVVU wr?*&*VM7 '~Qof the gun being emptied into his back.The shot were small however, and weunderstand he was sprinkled with shotfrom his head to his heels, 147 shot being . Vpicked out of his body.The other account is that Rush wasstabbed while reading a will which cameinto the question of the land lines, andthat Hitter was shot by Rush as he ranoff. Rush had the gun at the fence withhim and his two sons were there. '*> tjjAs to what the testimony was at theinquest, we do not know, as the reporthas not yet been filed in the clerk's office.Magistrate J. C. Copeland, of Ehrhardt,held the inquest. . ^Mr. Ritter is still at home, confined tohis bed from his wounds. As to whetherthe case will be tried at the October termof court, we do not know. It is a deplorabletragedy, and one that is generallyregretted. Both men have families.attacked" BY A MOBand beaten, in a labor riot, until coveredwith sores, a Chicago street car conduo- * |]tor applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve, andwas soon sound and well. "I use it inmy family," writes G. J. Welch, of Tekonsha,Mich., "and find it perfect."Simply great for cuts and burns. Only25c at all druggists in Bamberg; Felder & , f,Matthews, Denmark. tI Denmark School Opening. ^The opening exercises of the Denmarkgraded school will be held Monday, September18th, at 9.30 o'clock There will -"|be a few short addresses on educationalsubjects, to which the public is cordiallyinvited. As usual each pupil will expectedto bring $1.00 entrance fee.Patrons are respectfully urged to sendtheir children the first day as it is almost* 1-1.1- in o c/*Kaa1I aosuiuieijr UCV/CCoai; 1U ? giuuvu ovuwvi thatall pupils get an even start. A greatmany do not seem to see the need of this. .jThey keep their children at home for thefirst month or two in the fall, then expectthem to be ready for promotion at theend of the session. Only one in a hundredis *ble to catch up and do the workthoroughly. Something will be left out. IS)two boys who are evenly matched in swiftnessof foot start out to run a race andNo. 1 is a hundred yards or a minuteahead of No. 2, the former is bound towin. Two laborers are hoeing cotton.At the beginning of the row one sits downto rest while the other goes steadilyahead. The first in order to catch thesecond will be obliged either to skip apart of his row or ao his work poorly,two evils between which there is nochoice. Now, it is the necessity of doingpoor work or skipping that we want toav )id. So often you hear a boy make thisexcuse: "They had passed over thatpart of arithmetic when I began schooland I never learned that subject," or"The class had been drilled in the declensionsof Latin before I entered school,consequently 1 never learned themthoroughly." That boy will never accomplishmuch in Latin.Of course I realize the fact that in somecases parents are obliged to keep theirchildren at home to work. In a few instancesit is necessary to the support ofthe family, but these cases are rare. Inalmost each one some way could be found - :to send the boy or girl to school. Whata tragedy it is to let a boy and especiallya girl grow to maturity in ignorance!To those who look at it from the rathersordid standpoint of a financial investment,let me say in commercial parlance,"It pays." 'At the present day as a ruleI a man succeeds in business in proportionto the amount of education he has. Thereare exceptions to this rule, which areconstantly held up before us to our detriment.These are geniuses, and they arethe scarcest things I know. If you haveone in your family it will not be necessaryto send him to school. He will succeedwithout it; but you had better be sure heis a genius.Now, let us look at this question from astandpoint other than the financial. Whoare the leaders in religion, statecraft,society, science, literature ? They are theeducated men and women. Statisticswill prove it. At what a disadvantage isthe uneducated man on the platform,though he may be gifted as a speaker.What trouble he finds in expressing histhoughts, though they may be good ones.Let us, dear friends, put our children inschool at the beginning, send them everyday, and see if we shall not be rewarded.E. H.Hall.Denmark, S. C., September 12,1905.j'MjmJjSa . >'??!